UFO Sightings in Ohio
4,176 UFO sightings reported in Ohio since 1947, peaking in 2013 (363 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 4,176
- Span
- 1947–2022
- Peak year
- 2013 (363 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1947–2022 · peak 2013 (363 reports)
Top cities in Ohio
Columbus
1956–2021 · peak 2013 (30 reports)
Cincinnati
1955–2022 · peak 2013 (17 reports)
Cleveland
1947–2021 · peak 2004 (9 reports)
Toledo
1954–2021 · peak 2013 (9 reports)
Dayton
1959–2021 · peak 2021 (11 reports)
Akron
1956–2022 · peak 2013 (6 reports)
Canton
1956–2020 · peak 2013 (8 reports)
Garrettsville
2004–2022 · peak 2020 (23 reports)
Cambridge
1966–2022 · peak 2020 (18 reports)
Youngstown
1969–2022 · peak 2020 (7 reports)
Springfield
1974–2020 · peak 2012 (6 reports)
Chillicothe
1982–2020 · peak 2007 (4 reports)
Fairborn
1999–2019 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Hamilton
1952–2020 · peak 2013 (5 reports)
Mansfield
1965–2022 · peak 1973 (4 reports)
West Chester
1992–2020 · peak 2013 (5 reports)
Newark
1976–2021 · peak 2012 (7 reports)
Medina
1977–2021 · peak 2013 (6 reports)
Delaware
1977–2020 · peak 2003 (6 reports)
Massillon
1995–2020 · peak 2014 (4 reports)
Columbus · OH, USA
Light in the sky that moved at a high rate of speed and that changes direction five times
Middletown · OH, USA
A fading light in the night sky.....
Grove city · OH, USA
Very bright light at a high rate of speed ... stopped for 5 seconds... shot off in a different direction....no sound...sceptical witnes
Akron · OH, USA
round orbs in the middle of the day
Blanchester · OH, USA
At 11:50 pm, I was driving home and I saw this object on the left of me. It was triangular in shape. It had a white light on each tip
Blanchester · OH, USA
smooth, rounded, silent, triangular object following me...
Ashtabula · OH, USA
Sighed orange star like object at night which appears to display strange and sudden movements.
Rayland · OH, USA
a bright light that changes from orange to white (in the sky). slowly moved to the right,it took one hour to move when we notice. it mo
Toledo · OH, USA
In Toledo Ohio on June 28 at 12:45 am a Red Bowed shape object was seen in the sky. It followed our car and then disappeared.
Enon · OH, USA
Hovering bright light with no noise.
Howland · OH, USA
Large triangle moving at an incredable speed, no aircraft on this planet could ever have flown that fast.
Youngstown · OH, USA
Well, We were walking in to a store when my girlfriend said look at those balls in the sky,I looked where she had pointed in the sky an
Middletown · OH, USA
went both ways on the moon
Cleveland · OH, USA
Long, silver cylindrical object without visible wingspan; First signted by observer "D" in southern sky approx elevation 45 degrees, mo
Defiance · OH, USA
It was a bright,orangish,circular light that slowly and silently traveled east in the sky.
Columbus · OH, USA
The date could be sometime in May, June or July. I was traveling north to south on the West outerbelt of Columbus, Ohio, heading for t
Toledo · OH, USA
One light craft and 1(possibly 2) triangular crafts
Waynesburg · OH, USA
UFO sighting of boomerang in Ohio during Daylight.
South Webster · OH, USA
Lights in the sky, random movement, color of a high sodium light in the northern sky.
Hamersville · OH, USA
Blue green lights over southen ohio
Pepper Pike · OH, USA
Large, silver cigar, hovering low on horizion, half the size of my finger at arms length, in northeast.
Canton · OH, USA
It was a large, egg shaped craft that had a glow of blue. there were 3 of them traveling very fast in circles, up and down, side to sid
Middlefield (on county line · Geauga/Trumbull Counties), OH, USA
While driving westbound on state route 87 by the geauga and trumbull county line, another car was approaching towards the east. A brigh
Cadiz · OH, USA
I witnessed what seems to me as a very unusual craft flying over my small town ohio residence.
Columbus · OH, USA
It few over then stopped in a hover position. It looked like the crafts were in a fighter like formation then dispearded.